Italian senator De Gregorio refuses to give up his immunity

The Italian Senator Sergio De Gregorio of PDL, in these days, is under the spotlight because he is suspected (...) of having been rewarded for its transiction from the IDV party (opposition) to his acutal party (majority). Economically, of course. I do not want to go into the merits of the question, I want instead to focus on the subsequent point, ie the statement of De Gregorio in which he claims not to want to give up its prerogatives as a parliamentarian. In essence, he is not going to refuse immunity. It is not the first case of using of this much-discussed parliamentary prerogative. What enrages me is that he, like many other populating the Parliament, could be treated differently from any other citizen. If true what is ascribed to him, would be the worst example of politics (even if the competition is tough ...) which you may think. A person who sells his own ideals, very hypothetical at this point, for money. It is true that there are many things which we do not know of the political life and on which we can only speculate, perhaps this is a bad habit much more common than you might think. I think, though, that there should be no privilege of parliamentary immunity in a case like this. Here we are talking about a situation which would mean complete contempt for the voters, the citizens, for the country that is giving this gentleman a rich salary just to let him not being subject to external influences, to economic constraints. The paucity of Italian politics today is disarming. Seeing TV services that continually show that there are countless parliamentarians absolutely ignorant or uninformed is a shame. Not even having the power to choice them, we are left with a parliament inhabited by parasites, utterly unable to make decisions on his own, just waiting to get information from four or five party leaders and gaining weight in the while. What is clear is that this is disgusting, it is also generalized, now it's up to De Gregorio prove to be "different" from all of us, tomorrow who knows ...


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